I need to be able to look at and describe the client and server communication between my browser and the Google server.
I have downloaded net-tools but can't specifically see the communication, I've tried Wireshark but this brings too many things into it.
How can I see the communication and describe it using some sort of a web debugger tool?
You can use the network tab in Chromes developer tools or in Firebug for Firefox to see all request that are sent to a server. You could also use Fiddler.